>From the (historical) perspective this links to one entry point to TheOriginalWiki <https://wiki.c2.com/?TheOriginalWiki>. WardCunningham is a fine example of the "minimalist" style of programming and CamelCase was a relatively simple way of automatically generating links to the 30k+ pages that evolved there. It's been locked down for quite a while now but it is quite useful as a reference for those of us that still retain some knowledge of its content.
Enjoy. Hans On Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 11:26:25 AM UTC-5 Charlie Veniot wrote: > G'day Ed and all, > > I've been chewing on it a bit, trying to put on a WikiWords advocate hat > (which isn't fitting this cranium all that well...) > > "Wiki" means, from many things I've read, "quick" in Hawaiian. (It would > be pretty cool to get some fun context/history/examples about the word from > a Hawaiian!) > > From my perspective, the only advantage of WikiWords is to shave off time > entering the double brackets and spaces between words. So all about > squeezing max efficiency (and reducing typing-induced tendinitis o' the > finger knuckles.) Try as I might, I just can't see any other benefit. > > Maybe, aside from speed for users, it was/is also a quick and easy way to > implement page linking in wikis? (It would be pretty cool to have some > wiki historians chime in!) > > On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 3:05:34 PM UTC-4 Ed Heil wrote: > >> As a relatively new tiddlywiki user, I'm always interested in the >> opinions of people who have been TiddlyWiki'ing for a long time, and this >> topic came to mind. >> >> When I first started using TW (earlier this year), I tended to use >> WikiWords for titles. I've since gone almost entirely to double brackets >> (meaning titles may be single words or may have spaces in them). When you >> start using titles as tags, and use things like Table-Of-Contents plugins, >> it seems like an obvious move to remove the "multiple words, no spaces" >> restriction from titles. >> >> I'm curious though if any experienced tiddlywikists still use WikiWords, >> and if so what they find valuable about them. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/719d09fb-7e58-4447-aaf5-8985c5de289bn%40googlegroups.com.
